Happy New Year! I have really enjoyed your posts and know that you have made 2024 a better year.
My word for the year is "Lattice". I kept hearing in sitting with this New Moon in Capricorn that a Lattice was being created for my growth. And when I looked it up, cuz I wasn't exactly sure what it meant, I found the following definition: "In metaphysics, the word lattice is synonymous with Matrix, Grids, spiraling DNA, consciousness, linked to Jacob's Ladder As consciousness evolves, we move through the lattice, to find the answers that guide our spiritual destiny. In so doing, we wish to activate our DNA and move our conscious awareness into higher frequency experiences."
My word is "connect." I like how I can play with my word for the year. Connecting with the earth, myself, and others.
Never heard of it as a compass word before though, and I love that. Compass word.
I wonder what's underneath the word "present" for you. How do you want to feel when you are present? Do you want to be more mindful? In tune with your body? Perhaps embodied? Or just the word embody. I don't know. Just got me thinking and thought I would share.
Another question to determine your word is how do you want others to feel in your presence? If that resonates.
"how do you want others to feel in your presence?" Wow. Good question. Mostly because I don't think of it that way, unless I'm mothering or teaching. When I'm around adults I'm too lazy and tired from tending to children's needs to think of what adults might need from me. Or want. I'll have to think on that.
I guess I need to rephrase/rethink that. How I want them to feel is not necessarily what they want/need, but what I want/need. And the same could apply to both children and adults. But if I look at it as a mutually beneficial relationship, that makes it an easy lift. Meditating on that one....
I love love LOVE these questions! Thank you for helping me think this through! Originally, I wanted my compass word to be BODY, essentially to be more present in my body. Then I thought I'd go more general with present. But yes, body. Because all this writing and being in my head and homeschooling my daughter, etc. has been leaving me feeling disembodied, and now my body hurts, lol!
I so relate to being in my head. I really, really do.
Are you a Gemini Moon by any chance? Or heavy on the air signs maybe?
Oooo maybe ask your body what it wants the word to be. Write a letter to or from your body, or maybe write a Q&A with your body. Those are eye-opening processes.
Last time I checked I was a Taurus moon. I don't know what my rising sign is. I know I'm heavy on earth and water. Okay, now I'm reading the second part of your comment. I LOVE that prompt! I just asked my body what it wants and it said kindness. And my head said "You're too nice! That's why you're always miserable!" But my body's like "Gurrrrlllllll, step back."
I think ... I think I got it. Hmmmm. Such a GREAT post & thread. Then this morning's! (1/03/2025). How do we pick just one compass word (yup, you nailed it with COMPASS WORD) - but, though these posts, replies, further thought, a bit of light & night between the bit-pressurey, as is traditional New.Year - maybe?
It is all about to distill.
Down to one. (Because we won't forget the mattering others; not this year). xx
Word: impermanence! One day your teen wants to hangout with you, the next day he might ignore you! One day my body hurts, the next no pain. Lesson; love what’s happening now cuz by golly it will change!! One day sun. The next..you know!!
Wow! You had quite the year. Scary to tot up all those meals made, kms driven etc but I love all the creative pursuits of your family. I had a lot of heartache in 2024 around not being able to be as big a part of my grandchildren's lives due to their parent's messy divorce. I found myself getting into a judging and blaming game, accusing others of black and white thinking, and then realising I myself was doing just that too. (A whole world problem really!) My word for 2025 is Love - it feels like all I can offer: a softening around the edges towards all.
So far my word will be patience. My youngest son, girlfriend and my 5 and 7 year old grandchildren moved in with me. I've been alone almost 10 years. I love that my grandkids are here, it bothers me that my food is so much better, to and for them, than their own food. When I go to grab something I purchased, it's gone. Am I being petty? We are all struggling with money ( no money) so certain things I buy are a treat for a 71 year old grandmother, then they are gone. Is patience a good word?
Patience sounds like a great word for you right now. That and BREATHE (which helps me be more patient). That sounds so incredibly frustrating. I would need to breathe a lot through that. (Of course I say that, then forget to breathe as my daughter makes me lose my temper all the time with her incessant screaming.)
I've had to get used to temper tantrums too....I totally understand. Mostly they are good kids, but kids they are. I will take breathe to go besides patience. Thank you.
My word for 2025 is WAIT. I don’t necessarily like this, but feel it’s necessary considering the new regime coming in and my need to not freak out too early. My desire: Don’t jump to conclusions before seeing clearly. So, WAIT…
I love every bit of this!! I don’t have a word, but I do have a question that I’m walking around with now- what if it all works out? That’s what I decided to carry with me. That timid hopeful question. I don’t have control over a lot, but I do like to think I have some control over how I can reframe my thoughts and so, I’m going with that idea of a positive question. Or giving myself permission to think about it differently instead of constantly seeing all the reasons why it won’t or can’t. I’m really good at catastrophic thinking (thank you anxiety), and I’d like to shift that.
Also- perimenopause!!! That’s a word that keeps bouncing around in my head too.. 🫠 it makes me want to go lay down 🤣
I think we must share a brain because that question mantra vibe has also been walking around with me a lot lately. And perimenopause! I didn’t start getting hot flashes until Christmas!
Happy New Year! I recently discovered your posts and so enjoy them! I have a word for this year and it came to me rather easily. So easily in fact that I questioned it for a few days wondering if I was picking low hanging fruit.
The word is “Foundation”. I’ve been pulling oracle cards lately that point to a slowing down and building phase. It matches well with my intention to stop monkeying around in a business I’ve been trying to create the past 3 years and get down with the foundational pieces (like finding the best places to network) so that I can leave my job-that-pays-the-bills.
It’s amazing how sometimes the answer is so simple. Foundation is so excellent. Foundation is everything really - I equate it with the same under appreciated, but equally important Roots. What’s your business?
My compass word this year is MEND. I’ve been so drawn to visible mending in my social media feeds and feel like that is what I’ve been doing this past year: facing and not fixing but making the past and the truth new. I quit an incredibly toxic job steeped in a violent atmosphere. I wrote essays. And where I’ve ended up is better than where I began the year, so I want to make this effort conscious for 2025.
Compass Word sounds so much better than "Word of the Year," honestly!
"Pivot" was my 2024 word, and I did a lot of that, sometimes feeling like I was turning on a dime!
My guides were telling me "Crucible" was the word for this year. While I was installing it in my planner, my end-goal word cropped up, and I'm going to use it to guide me through the Crucible: *Diamond*
I loved reading everyone’s Compass Word. I didn’t think I’d add my own (didn’t know I even had one). But one word (well, two words) surfaced when I paused to allow something to arise: grace. But I’m also going to intentionally study the Tao this year so I’m adding a Compass Phrase to guide my year: Tao through Grace; Grace through Tao. I loved what Sam above wrote about how we would want our friends to perceive us when we’re together—experiencing me as Grace feels so right.
Love it! Tao is the best. Grace is perfect. Encapsulates so many of the words that peeps have put down already. And now I have to go re-read Sam's note!
Wow.... Your year was a gorgeous one. Also i'm so excited to see what Olin did to the stick 👻. I'm gonna try it myself.
Well I'm going to make a resolution 2025...... Contentment is better than exhaustion... I've exhausted myself all these years now it's time for some contentment. (Fingers stretch).
And I'm still looking for my compass word may be i should look for it in tarot 😉
I love the idea of calling it a Compass word. My word(s) of the year are connection and community. They were battling back and forth so I let them both be it. I'm an Aquarius, I make my own rules. I'm excited to build connection in community this year!
Happy New Year! I have really enjoyed your posts and know that you have made 2024 a better year.
My word for the year is "Lattice". I kept hearing in sitting with this New Moon in Capricorn that a Lattice was being created for my growth. And when I looked it up, cuz I wasn't exactly sure what it meant, I found the following definition: "In metaphysics, the word lattice is synonymous with Matrix, Grids, spiraling DNA, consciousness, linked to Jacob's Ladder As consciousness evolves, we move through the lattice, to find the answers that guide our spiritual destiny. In so doing, we wish to activate our DNA and move our conscious awareness into higher frequency experiences."
Oh that's really cool! I love the definition of lattice. I really like how that word sounds too. That's a good one!
That sounds WONDERFUL! did this come to you through meditation?
Yes I did a meditation with the moon. Its like we are laying down new structures for growth!
So awesome 🌚
My word is "connect." I like how I can play with my word for the year. Connecting with the earth, myself, and others.
Never heard of it as a compass word before though, and I love that. Compass word.
I wonder what's underneath the word "present" for you. How do you want to feel when you are present? Do you want to be more mindful? In tune with your body? Perhaps embodied? Or just the word embody. I don't know. Just got me thinking and thought I would share.
Another question to determine your word is how do you want others to feel in your presence? If that resonates.
Anyhoo,
Happy New years Eve!
"how do you want others to feel in your presence?" Wow. Good question. Mostly because I don't think of it that way, unless I'm mothering or teaching. When I'm around adults I'm too lazy and tired from tending to children's needs to think of what adults might need from me. Or want. I'll have to think on that.
I guess I need to rephrase/rethink that. How I want them to feel is not necessarily what they want/need, but what I want/need. And the same could apply to both children and adults. But if I look at it as a mutually beneficial relationship, that makes it an easy lift. Meditating on that one....
I love love LOVE these questions! Thank you for helping me think this through! Originally, I wanted my compass word to be BODY, essentially to be more present in my body. Then I thought I'd go more general with present. But yes, body. Because all this writing and being in my head and homeschooling my daughter, etc. has been leaving me feeling disembodied, and now my body hurts, lol!
I so relate to being in my head. I really, really do.
Are you a Gemini Moon by any chance? Or heavy on the air signs maybe?
Oooo maybe ask your body what it wants the word to be. Write a letter to or from your body, or maybe write a Q&A with your body. Those are eye-opening processes.
Last time I checked I was a Taurus moon. I don't know what my rising sign is. I know I'm heavy on earth and water. Okay, now I'm reading the second part of your comment. I LOVE that prompt! I just asked my body what it wants and it said kindness. And my head said "You're too nice! That's why you're always miserable!" But my body's like "Gurrrrlllllll, step back."
Sam, that's ... really smart. Thank you for sharing this thought. Got me thinking, even more. Hmm.
Aw that's the nicest thing someone could ever say to me, thank you 🙏
I love this. I chose "connection" as my word also!
Great minds think alike!
I think ... I think I got it. Hmmmm. Such a GREAT post & thread. Then this morning's! (1/03/2025). How do we pick just one compass word (yup, you nailed it with COMPASS WORD) - but, though these posts, replies, further thought, a bit of light & night between the bit-pressurey, as is traditional New.Year - maybe?
It is all about to distill.
Down to one. (Because we won't forget the mattering others; not this year). xx
Word: impermanence! One day your teen wants to hangout with you, the next day he might ignore you! One day my body hurts, the next no pain. Lesson; love what’s happening now cuz by golly it will change!! One day sun. The next..you know!!
Impermanence (had to look twice to see how it was spelled…)! ain’t that the truth! The only constant is change. Sho nuff! Happy NYE, Linda!
Wow! You had quite the year. Scary to tot up all those meals made, kms driven etc but I love all the creative pursuits of your family. I had a lot of heartache in 2024 around not being able to be as big a part of my grandchildren's lives due to their parent's messy divorce. I found myself getting into a judging and blaming game, accusing others of black and white thinking, and then realising I myself was doing just that too. (A whole world problem really!) My word for 2025 is Love - it feels like all I can offer: a softening around the edges towards all.
I love LOVE! Softening around the edges, yes! I might have to borrow that one.
So far my word will be patience. My youngest son, girlfriend and my 5 and 7 year old grandchildren moved in with me. I've been alone almost 10 years. I love that my grandkids are here, it bothers me that my food is so much better, to and for them, than their own food. When I go to grab something I purchased, it's gone. Am I being petty? We are all struggling with money ( no money) so certain things I buy are a treat for a 71 year old grandmother, then they are gone. Is patience a good word?
Patience sounds like a great word for you right now. That and BREATHE (which helps me be more patient). That sounds so incredibly frustrating. I would need to breathe a lot through that. (Of course I say that, then forget to breathe as my daughter makes me lose my temper all the time with her incessant screaming.)
I've had to get used to temper tantrums too....I totally understand. Mostly they are good kids, but kids they are. I will take breathe to go besides patience. Thank you.
Cool! Lemme know how it goes :-)
My word for 2025 is WAIT. I don’t necessarily like this, but feel it’s necessary considering the new regime coming in and my need to not freak out too early. My desire: Don’t jump to conclusions before seeing clearly. So, WAIT…
YES! Wait! Pause...
Mine is "surrender"! Inspired by my favorite album of all time by Maggie Rogers.
Now want to listen to that!
You absolutely must!
I love every bit of this!! I don’t have a word, but I do have a question that I’m walking around with now- what if it all works out? That’s what I decided to carry with me. That timid hopeful question. I don’t have control over a lot, but I do like to think I have some control over how I can reframe my thoughts and so, I’m going with that idea of a positive question. Or giving myself permission to think about it differently instead of constantly seeing all the reasons why it won’t or can’t. I’m really good at catastrophic thinking (thank you anxiety), and I’d like to shift that.
Also- perimenopause!!! That’s a word that keeps bouncing around in my head too.. 🫠 it makes me want to go lay down 🤣
I think we must share a brain because that question mantra vibe has also been walking around with me a lot lately. And perimenopause! I didn’t start getting hot flashes until Christmas!
LOVE.THIS. (!!)
Happy New Year! I recently discovered your posts and so enjoy them! I have a word for this year and it came to me rather easily. So easily in fact that I questioned it for a few days wondering if I was picking low hanging fruit.
The word is “Foundation”. I’ve been pulling oracle cards lately that point to a slowing down and building phase. It matches well with my intention to stop monkeying around in a business I’ve been trying to create the past 3 years and get down with the foundational pieces (like finding the best places to network) so that I can leave my job-that-pays-the-bills.
And thanks so much for your kind words!
It’s amazing how sometimes the answer is so simple. Foundation is so excellent. Foundation is everything really - I equate it with the same under appreciated, but equally important Roots. What’s your business?
My compass word this year is MEND. I’ve been so drawn to visible mending in my social media feeds and feel like that is what I’ve been doing this past year: facing and not fixing but making the past and the truth new. I quit an incredibly toxic job steeped in a violent atmosphere. I wrote essays. And where I’ve ended up is better than where I began the year, so I want to make this effort conscious for 2025.
That sounds so lovely! I am so here for that!
Compass Word sounds so much better than "Word of the Year," honestly!
"Pivot" was my 2024 word, and I did a lot of that, sometimes feeling like I was turning on a dime!
My guides were telling me "Crucible" was the word for this year. While I was installing it in my planner, my end-goal word cropped up, and I'm going to use it to guide me through the Crucible: *Diamond*
Amazing. Crucible sounds very daunting! And diamond, as means to get through crucible, amazing! May you have all the diamonds for this year, Victoria!
My guides don't sugarcoat stuff. There will be big challenges to accompany the big shifts, but we've been there and survived before.
How do I find a guide?
I'll email you.
I loved reading everyone’s Compass Word. I didn’t think I’d add my own (didn’t know I even had one). But one word (well, two words) surfaced when I paused to allow something to arise: grace. But I’m also going to intentionally study the Tao this year so I’m adding a Compass Phrase to guide my year: Tao through Grace; Grace through Tao. I loved what Sam above wrote about how we would want our friends to perceive us when we’re together—experiencing me as Grace feels so right.
Love it! Tao is the best. Grace is perfect. Encapsulates so many of the words that peeps have put down already. And now I have to go re-read Sam's note!
Grace! Ooooo... very good.
Wow.... Your year was a gorgeous one. Also i'm so excited to see what Olin did to the stick 👻. I'm gonna try it myself.
Well I'm going to make a resolution 2025...... Contentment is better than exhaustion... I've exhausted myself all these years now it's time for some contentment. (Fingers stretch).
And I'm still looking for my compass word may be i should look for it in tarot 😉
Happy New Year Summer 🎊
Yes! and yes!!!! Yes to all the things. I think I'll pull out the Tarot now, too....
I AM SO DOWN WITH OLIN'S STICK - whaaaaaa?! And yeeaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!!
Calm.
Excellent. May it be so.
I love the idea of calling it a Compass word. My word(s) of the year are connection and community. They were battling back and forth so I let them both be it. I'm an Aquarius, I make my own rules. I'm excited to build connection in community this year!
Yes ma'am! I feel like those words are essentially the same in many ways! Also, I love aquariuses. Keep makin' your own rules!
Aquarii? is that the plural? lol
wow !